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Sunday, September 27, 2009

The Rocker, Trailer

This film, The Rocker, was not well reviewed, but it has the distinction of being the only one I have heard of that has a Baha'i star, at least not since Carole Lombard, in the 1930's. Coincidentally, she was also a comic actor.

"Carole Lombard became one of Hollywood's top comedy actresses in the 1930s. In comedies like Twentieth Century (1934) by Howard Hawks, My Man Godfrey (1936) by Gregory La Cava, for which she received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination, and Nothing Sacred (1937) by William A. Wellman, she proved a marvellous comedic talent..."